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Can coughing cause labor?

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I am 32 weeks I was just hospitalized for a week with the flu. I was sent home a week ago. But I haven't been able to shake this cough. I've been having contractions all day (not really regularly tho) and A LOT of pressure on my vagina and rectum. I keep feeling like I need to go to the bathroom, but I don't. I've drank a lot of water so I know it's not dehydration. They did an US and he is much than bigger than he should be at this point and he is head down and dropped. I'm not sure he is going to wait much longer with as much as he's pushing down. Should I be expecting labor soon?

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Hard to say, you can never know how soon labor will begin you can be in preterm labor for days or even weeks, there's just no way of knowing how long that will take, and to answer your question no, coughing will not cause labor

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